This list shows 79 groundcover plants that are native to your location, and are carried in nurseries. Plants are ordered by their popularity in gardening applications.
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1. California Poppy
Eschscholzia californica
2. White Sage
Salvia apiana
3. Purple Sage
Salvia leucophylla
4. California Fuchsia
Epilobium canum
5. Skunkbush Sumac
Rhus trilobata
6. Western Blue-Eyed Grass
Sisyrinchium bellum
7. Black Sage
Salvia mellifera
8. Palmer’s Indian Mallow
Abutilon palmeri
9. California Bush Sunflower
Encelia californica
10. Common Yarrow
Achillea millefolium
11. Fragrant Sumac
Rhus aromatica
12. Silver Wormwood
Artemisia ludoviciana
13. Frog Fruit
Phyla nodiflora
14. Prairie Junegrass
Koeleria macrantha
15. Red Fescue
Festuca rubra
16. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum
17. California Wildrose
Rosa californica
18. Alkali Sacaton
Sporobolus airoides
19. Four-Wing Saltbush
Atriplex canescens
20. Brittlebush
Encelia farinosa
21. Catalina Currant
Ribes viburnifolium
22. Blue Wild Rye
Elymus glaucus
23. Scarlet Bugler
Penstemon centranthifolius
24. Bush Monkeyflower
Diplacus aurantiacus
25. Sandberg Bluegrass
Poa secunda
26. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata
27. Big Saltbush
Atriplex lentiformis
28. Chamise
Adenostoma fasciculatum
29. California Polypody
Polypodium californicum
30. Smallflower Melic Grass
Melica imperfecta
31. San Diego County Sunflower
Bahiopsis laciniata
32. Sea Dahlia
Coreopsis maritima
33. Southern Honeysuckle
Lonicera subspicata
34. Coyote Brush
Baccharis pilularis
35. California Blackberry
Rubus ursinus
36. California Sagebrush
Artemisia californica
37. Checkerbloom
Sidalcea malviflora
38. Clustered Field Sedge
Carex praegracilis
39. Baby Blue Eyes
Nemophila menziesii
40. Saltgrass
Distichlis spicata
41. Chalk Dudleya
Dudleya pulverulenta
42. Hollowleaf Annual Lupine
Lupinus succulentus
43. California Goldenrod
Solidago californica
44. Beardless Wildrye
Leymus triticoides
45. Tufted Poppy
Eschscholzia caespitosa
46. Chick Lupine
Lupinus microcarpus
47. Chaparral Whitethorn
Ceanothus leucodermis
48. California Goldfields
Lasthenia californica
49. Munz’s Sage
Salvia munzii
50. California Buckwheat
Eriogonum fasciculatum var. foliolosum
51. Desert Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis
52. Southwestern Mock Vervain
Glandularia gooddingii
53. Purple Owl’s Clover
Castilleja exserta
54. Baja Rose
Rosa minutifolia
55. Wishbone-Bush
Mirabilis laevis var. villosa
56. California Four O’Clock
Mirabilis laevis var. crassifolia
57. Slender Sunflower
Helianthus gracilentus
58. Tarragon
Artemisia dracunculus
59. Fiberoptic Grass
Isolepis cernua
60. California Aster
Corethrogyne filaginifolia
61. Giant Wildrye
Leymus condensatus
62. Lanceleaf Liveforever
Dudleya lanceolata
63. Seashore Bentgrass
Agrostis pallens
64. Hooker’s Evening Primrose
Oenothera elata subsp. hookeri
65. Island False Bindweed
Calystegia macrostegia
66. Chia Sage
Salvia columbariae
67. Cane Bluestem
Bothriochloa barbinodis
68. Spreading Fleabane
Erigeron divergens
69. Coulter’s Lupine
Lupinus sparsiflorus
70. Indian Lettuce
Claytonia parviflora
71. Whitemargin Sandmat
Euphorbia albomarginata
72. Fringed Linanthus
Linanthus dianthiflorus
73. Miner’s Lettuce
Claytonia perfoliata
74. Common Deerweed
Acmispon glaber
75. Telegraphweed
Heterotheca grandiflora
76. Knotgrass
Paspalum distichum
77. Prostrate Spurge
Euphorbia prostrata
78. Annual Wall-Rocket
Diplotaxis muralis
79. Seaside Petunia
Calibrachoa parviflora
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